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Peculiar places : a queer crip history of white rural nonconformity / Ryan Lee Cartwright.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cartwright, Ryan Lee, author.
- Series:
- Chicago scholarship online.
- Chicago scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sexual minority community--United States--History--20th century.
- Sexual minority community.
- People with disabilities--United States--History--20th century.
- People with disabilities.
- Conformity--United States--History--20th century.
- Conformity.
- White people--United States--History--20th century.
- White people.
- Sexual minorities in popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
- Sexual minorities in popular culture.
- People with disabilities in popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
- People with disabilities in popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- 'Peculiar Places' narrates queer and disability histories of white social nonconformity in twentieth-century rural United States. Ryan Lee Cartwright contends that, during the last hundred years, rural American gossip about queer and peculiar white neighbors crystallized into a national optic of white social degeneracy. Cartwright points to a tension between the idyll (rooted in the national myth of the Jeffersonian yeoman farmer and his idealized family) and the anti-idyll (the aberrant sexuality, gender transgression, and anomalous bodies and minds that are associated with rural white populations).
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction. QueerCrip Historical Analysis and the Rural White Anti-Idyll
- One. Harlots from the Hollow: Eugenic Detectives on the Lookout for the Rural White Hovel Family
- Two. Curious Scenes: The Fringes of Rural Rehabilitation in 1930s Documentary Photography
- Three. Madness in the Dead Heart: Ed Gein and the Fabrication of the Transgender Heartland "Psycho" Killer Myth
- Four. "Maimed in Body and Spirit": The Spectacle of White Appalachian Poverty Tours during the 1960s
- Five. Banjos, Chainsaws, and Sodomy: Making 1970s Rural Horror Films and the Apex of the Anti-Idyll
- Six. Estranged but Not Strangers: Nonconformity Encounters Identity in 1990s Hate-Crime Documentaries
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 3, 2022).
- ISBN:
- 0-226-69707-X
- 9780226697079
- OCLC:
- 1259590096
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